The Night of the Living Dead. Digital Audio 3 Project

                The Night of the Living Dead is an archived footage that I re-mastered. The film is about over an hour length feature that we had to cut and edit down to 42 minutes. Of course this process was done with a big production group. This assignment was for my Digital Audio 3 class. In this class, our task as group as was strip all the audio from the movie, and recreate everything from scratch. From the sound design, to the foley, to the music scoring, to the adr recording. We had to recreate the sound.

                Before we started any recording, we had to go through a pre-production stage. Each member of the group was assigned a specific position in order to accomplish our task at a reasonable organized time. After we assigned positions, we were able to start our spotting notes, which is basically a category list of different sounds that we needed. We then also formatted an a/v script for our voice talent that we then hired to help us with replacing the original dialogue.

                After we finished all our recordings, we then started adding any special ambient effects and music scoring to give emotion and character to the movie. It is a zombie movie, so we had to spice things up and add intense, creepy, and scary types of sound. Once all the production was completed, we then went through our final step, which was to mix and master the whole entire project.

                Mixing and mastering are two different jobs. Mixing has to go first before mastering. We went through several revisions before we were able to get the precise mix we were looking for. This process took us in total about 11 weeks to finish as a group. The only difficulties we ran into were communication with other group members, and meeting specific deadlines each week which was showing significant progress.